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Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra (English translation) [1979]
(Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1981)
Original
Résumé In Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra, Michel Tremblay examines the sacred and the profane - their
similarities and differences, how they can merge and become one another. The play consists of two interwoven monologues on religion and sex, spoken by Manon (from Forever Yours, Marie-Lou) and Sandra (from Hosanna). With Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra, Tremblay announced the
end of his eleven-play cycle. At the play's climax Sandra and Manon realize that they have been
"invented" by the author... Extrait « MANON : And I've discovered on my own, it's true that God exists. / SANDRA : I really can't think of anything but fucking to keep me alive. » Revue de presse "If one can judge from the superb quality and blazing intensity of the emotional outpourings in
Damnée Manon, sacrée Sandra (...), then Michel Tremblay ought to perhaps reconsider his
decision [to end this eleven-play cycle]. The playwright's purpose is to show there are two persons
existing within a body. Good and evil, love and hate, religious and sexual ecstasies...so close
as to be one and the same" Lawrence Sabbath, The Montreal Star, February 25, 1977. |
